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Spanish and Indian Place Names of California gives its subject as place names, with the subtitle Their Meaning and Their Romance. The discussion says that Bernal Díaz’s diary calls California a bay and suggests that the name probably first belonged to a definite point on the coast.
The entry for Potrero gives the meaning pasture ground and identifies Potrero as one of the districts of San Francisco. The entry for Presidio explains that the Spaniards used the word to mean either a prison or a military post. The discussion suggests that the custom of using convicts as soldiers may have had something to do with the word’s double usage. The description of the Presidio of San Francisco locates the military post at the north end of the peninsula.
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